Susceptible

Susceptible

Dictionary definition: likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing

Sentence definition: When someone is susceptible to something, it means they could be vulnerable.

Model News Article Sentences:

• Rising Chitinase 3- like- 1 Levels Make susceptible to covid

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• The pro athlete cohort is uniquely susceptible to medical nonsense, and has been for quite some time.

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• While deaths from sepsis have dropped in the United States since 2000, older Americans remain particularly susceptible to the life-threatening bacterial infection, new government data shows.

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Used in sentence:

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet may therefore be inherently susceptible to ever faster glacier recession

Root: kap - Porto- Indo- European root meaning "to grasp"

Prefix: sus - meaning "suspicious"

Suffix: able - meaning "capable"

Other forms:

Susceptibility

Insusceptible

Non-susceptible

Etymology:

Language of origin: English, Derived from Latin

Original word: Comes from Latin; sub or sus (up) + capere (take) --> “susceptibilis”

First meaning: To take or to catch.

Story: In (1600) Late Latin it used to mean to take or to catch. Now it means to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing or being affected by. The word susceptible is from Italy spoken in Latin. Latin was originally spoken in the area around Rome, known as Latium. It spread with the increase of Roman political power, first throughout Italy and then throughout most of western and southern Europe and the central and western Mediterranean coastal regions of Africa.

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